Hey folks,
I've been hearing about this forum for years from my brother - not sure what took me so long to visit!
I've got a dead Tacoma on my hands in Richmond, VA and hoping someone has some ideas for me. It's a 2004 PreRunner, and only had 165k miles on it before it was killed by a Valvoline shop that used the wrong size filter on it. Engine is totally locked up.
After a long fight with Valvoline - I've got the truck back from their repair shop but pretty much everything under the hood was removed by repair shop and is sitting in the bed of the truck.
What the heck do I do with this? It pains me to sell it for salvage but the quotes I'm getting to put an engine in are coming in high $8k+, and there's no telling what else that was pulled might also need work or replacing.
Assuming the truck isn't needed any longer - would it make any sense to pay for an engine to be put in and then try to sell it? Or should I just accept that it's toast and sell for salvage?
I've been hearing about this forum for years from my brother - not sure what took me so long to visit!
I've got a dead Tacoma on my hands in Richmond, VA and hoping someone has some ideas for me. It's a 2004 PreRunner, and only had 165k miles on it before it was killed by a Valvoline shop that used the wrong size filter on it. Engine is totally locked up.
After a long fight with Valvoline - I've got the truck back from their repair shop but pretty much everything under the hood was removed by repair shop and is sitting in the bed of the truck.
What the heck do I do with this? It pains me to sell it for salvage but the quotes I'm getting to put an engine in are coming in high $8k+, and there's no telling what else that was pulled might also need work or replacing.
Assuming the truck isn't needed any longer - would it make any sense to pay for an engine to be put in and then try to sell it? Or should I just accept that it's toast and sell for salvage?